The IPv4 address swamp: The new normal
blog.apnic.net12 points by speckx 8 hours ago
12 points by speckx 8 hours ago
Setting aside the address scarcity issue, how is IPv6 going to simplify the routing table? If anything, it would just be an explosion of the number of addresses?
I mean a million is objectively a large number if it's all on paper, but to me, that's not a particularly large data set for talking about the entire freaking internet.
And how cheap of a SOC can handle that in memory? A better question might be to even make a system on a chip that couldn't handle that memory?
There theory might be that an organisation would end up advertising a single prefix, rather than whatever they have now (say 40 networks with various prefixes).
The issue is; in the default free zone, every peer which gives you a full table, gives you 1 million routes. Core infrastructure is not getting refreshed every 5 year, I have heard so...